Globalization And Sport: Playing The World
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Description:
Sport is the most universal feature of popular culture. It crosses language barriers and slices through national boundaries, attracting both spectators and participants, to a common lingua franca of passions, obsessions and desires. This book brings to light the connections between sport and culture. It argues that although sport is obviously a source of pleasure, it is also p...
Sport is the most universal feature of popular culture. It crosses language barriers and slices through national boundaries, attracting both spectators and participants, to a common lingua franca of passions, obsessions and desires. This book brings to light the connections between sport and culture. It argues that although sport is obviously a source of pleasure, it is also p...
Description:
Sport is the most universal feature of popular culture. It crosses language barriers and slices through national boundaries, attracting both spectators and participants, to a common lingua franca of passions, obsessions and desires. This book brings to light the connections between sport and culture. It argues that although sport is obviously a source of pleasure, it is also part of the government of everyday life. The creation of a sporting calendar, movements of rational recreation and the development of physical education in the public sector, are read as ways of disciplining and shaping urban-industrial populations. In addition, sport is examined as a principal front of globalization. The sports process draws together dispersed communities and generates economic wealth. The book demonstrates how commodification, bureaucratization and ideology are fundamental to the organization of sporting cultures.
Review:
'...Globalization and Sport is soundly researched and well-written. I found this book as gripping as a best-selling novel. I would recommend this book as essential reading for both undergraduates and postgraduates as well as for researchers in sociology of sport.' -- Elizabeth Rose Sport, Education and Society 20050201
Table of Contents:
Introduction Why This Book? The 'G-Word' Meets the 'S-Word' National Symbolism and the Global Exchange of Sporting Bodies Sports Media sans Fronti[gr]eres Citizens of the World The Governance of Sport Conclusion Global Sport and Cultural Labour
Author Biography:
Toby Miller is a Professor in the Department of English, University of California, Riverside. He is the author of The Well-Tempered Self (1993), Contemporary Australian Television (1994), The Avengers (1997), Technologies of Truth (1998), and Popular Culture & Everyday Life (Sage, 1998). He co-edited SPORTCULT (1999), A Companion To Film Theory (1999), and Film and Theory: An Anthology (2000). He is co-editor of Social Text since 1997. In addition to Toby Miller s academic work, he has extensive media experience as a presenter, critic, and social commentator in Australia and the United States.
Sport is the most universal feature of popular culture. It crosses language barriers and slices through national boundaries, attracting both spectators and participants, to a common lingua franca of passions, obsessions and desires. This book brings to light the connections between sport and culture. It argues that although sport is obviously a source of pleasure, it is also part of the government of everyday life. The creation of a sporting calendar, movements of rational recreation and the development of physical education in the public sector, are read as ways of disciplining and shaping urban-industrial populations. In addition, sport is examined as a principal front of globalization. The sports process draws together dispersed communities and generates economic wealth. The book demonstrates how commodification, bureaucratization and ideology are fundamental to the organization of sporting cultures.
Review:
'...Globalization and Sport is soundly researched and well-written. I found this book as gripping as a best-selling novel. I would recommend this book as essential reading for both undergraduates and postgraduates as well as for researchers in sociology of sport.' -- Elizabeth Rose Sport, Education and Society 20050201
Table of Contents:
Introduction Why This Book? The 'G-Word' Meets the 'S-Word' National Symbolism and the Global Exchange of Sporting Bodies Sports Media sans Fronti[gr]eres Citizens of the World The Governance of Sport Conclusion Global Sport and Cultural Labour
Author Biography:
Toby Miller is a Professor in the Department of English, University of California, Riverside. He is the author of The Well-Tempered Self (1993), Contemporary Australian Television (1994), The Avengers (1997), Technologies of Truth (1998), and Popular Culture & Everyday Life (Sage, 1998). He co-edited SPORTCULT (1999), A Companion To Film Theory (1999), and Film and Theory: An Anthology (2000). He is co-editor of Social Text since 1997. In addition to Toby Miller s academic work, he has extensive media experience as a presenter, critic, and social commentator in Australia and the United States.
| Autor | Miller, T; Lawrence, G. A; Mckay, J. |
|---|---|
| Ilmumisaeg | 2001 |
| Kirjastus | Sage Publications Ltd |
| Köide | Pehmekaaneline |
| Bestseller | Ei |
| Lehekülgede arv | 168 |
| Pikkus | 234 |
| Laius | 234 |
| Keel | English |
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